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To ask what you would pay for this?

374 replies

SequinsAndGlitter · 06/02/2021 17:53

Needing someone to come to the house at 7.30AM, look after a 7 year old and walk 7 year old to school for 8.45AM.
£5 too low, £10 too high?

OP posts:
timetest · 06/02/2021 22:59

£15 minimum.

Thegreymethod · 06/02/2021 23:09

Someone I know asked me to do this for them a couple of days a week and I agreed, she insisted on paying me £5 a morning even though I'd said she didn't need to pay me..... she was dropping him off at mine obviously fully ready for school and he'd had breakfast and I was already going to the school with my child, you're asking for someone to come to you, walk somewhere they wouldn't usually have to walk too, would they have to get them ready for school/ ensure they are ready and give them breakfast?
Remember it's not just about what they need to do in that time, it's their time you're paying them for, is it really worth someone going to all that effort at 7.30 in the morning for £10? Would you do it for £10?

tillyandmilly · 06/02/2021 23:10

£15 minimum

Thegreymethod · 06/02/2021 23:16

Sorry just read your update and realise it's you who's been offered the job, breakfast club may only be £5/6 but that's because they're making their money by having multiple children in and not sure about where you are but every breakfast club I know only start at 8 ish.

SoulofanAggron · 06/02/2021 23:22

£8.72 for an hour is pretty much the legal requirement (assuming they're over 25, though I would pay any adult the same wage anyway) www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates

So that would make your hour and 15 a little over £10.

Of course you could pay self employed people prepared to work for it less than the legal minimum for the average worker- but I would think that unethical.

Empressofthemundane · 06/02/2021 23:24

£15

SoulofanAggron · 06/02/2021 23:28

More would be even better of course, depending what you can afford. A couple of quid to cover their travel time etc.

If you make people work for peanuts you're more likely to get people quitting on you and then you'd have to go to the effort of finding someone all over again.

And a lot of people are desparate for any money right now and it'd be wrong to exploit that.

JengaJanga · 06/02/2021 23:29

£20

SoulofanAggron · 06/02/2021 23:32

Just read all your posts. She's taking the piss @SequinsAndGlitter . Everyone knows roughly what the minimum wage is for a start, or can google and find it in a moment.

If breakfast clubs or childminders minding more than one child charge less, that's because they're getting it from more than one person. Grin They're not working that hour for one £5.

Arobase · 06/02/2021 23:34

People generally only charge around £5 for that sort of thing if they are already taking other children. If this person wants her child taken on her own, she will need to pay the going rate.

starfishmummy · 07/02/2021 00:01

And, um, does she exoect this to be above board employment, you bekng self employed or will it be cash in hand no questions asked?

OllyBJolly · 07/02/2021 00:09

I used to pay £20 per shift for that and it was 20 years ago.

Embarrasedaf · 07/02/2021 00:10

Just say no. You don’t have to desperately accept anything that comes your way when it’s under minimum wage.

Mother2princess · 07/02/2021 00:28

I'd expect £20 unsociable hours

BigBadVoodooMummy · 07/02/2021 00:31

£20 - you are being asked to deal with the worst hour of the day in a smooth professional manner. No matter how well behaved the child - 7.30-8.30 before school is arsehole hour for 7yos!

Totally different gig from breakfast club where organised dressed children are dropped off at school or even after school where the pressure is off a bit time-wise. Going to child's house and getting the show on the road is way more work - there will likely be last minute chaos to sort on a regular basis.

mathanxiety · 07/02/2021 00:40

At least £20.

She is taking the piss.

DishedUp · 07/02/2021 00:45

Are they expecting you to get the child ready for school as well? I'm assuming a fair amount of work goes in between 7.30 and 8.45? Its not just watching a child

I think £20. You are fully qualified adult, its a 1 on 1 service and its inconvenient hours.

Saying breakfast club charge £5 is a bit like saying the bus charges £3.50 to a taxi driver, they are completely different things.

It honestly depends if you need the money or not as well. If you really need the money I'd do if for £15, but less than that is taking the piss.

Blondiney · 07/02/2021 00:46

20 minimum.

nettie434 · 07/02/2021 00:52

The charge for a breakfast club is not a reasonable comparison as the children have already been brought to the location and they don't need so much help as making sure they are dressed and ready to leave. I'd say £15 is the minimum but £20 would be a fair refection of the work involved. £10 would only be fair if the job was literally just walking the child to school.

Pipandmum · 07/02/2021 00:54

£20.

littlepieces · 07/02/2021 01:01

£20 a day if you want someone who is legit, actually decent, and has dbs check.

£5 Hmm

Italiangreyhound · 07/02/2021 01:37

National minimum wage for over 25 year olds is £8.72 an hour. So for an hour and a quarter is £10.90.

That's the minimum.

Porridgeoat · 07/02/2021 05:21

£15

However if your own child is there too maybe £12

AdriannaP · 07/02/2021 07:03

Don’t do it for £5! That’s a joke. She can use the breakfast club then.
I’d pay £10 ph.

MaverickDanger · 07/02/2021 07:05

A neighbour used to do this for us as kids & my mum paid her £100 per week for two of us.

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